//------------------------------// // A Dragon and Pony Show // Story: The Tale of the Second Alpha // by Bergen //------------------------------// The scene begins in Rarity's home and dress making shop as she was preparing one of her outfits. "Perfect." Rarity said to herself as she put the last blue gem on the outfit she was working on. Just as she did the bell on her door ringed. "Coming! Welcome to Carousel Boutique, where every garment is chic, unique, and magnifique." Rarity began to say before she gasped as she noticed pony that had just walked into her shop. "Sapphire Shores, the pony of pop!" Rarity said as the blue maned pony stood in her store. "Good afternoon, Miss Rarity." Sapphire Shores said introducing herself to the star stuck unicorn. "You, yah... Y-You know my name." Rarity said her head about to explode from the shock that one of the biggest names in Canterlot knowing her name. "Well, of course I do, darling. I make it a point to know all of the up-and-coming designers and Clothes Horse magazine simply raved about you." Sapphire Shores said to Rarity explaining why she was currently at Rarity's store. "Oh my stars. If I'm dreaming please don't wake me up. How may I help you, Miss Shores?" Rarity said trying to pull herself together and act professionally. "Oh please, call me Sapphire." The pony of pop said to Rarity. "giggle, How my I help you, Sapphire." Rarity said to Sapphire Shores. "Well, as I'm sure you know, I'll be touring all across Equestria with my latest concert. Sapphire Shores' Ziegfilly Follies, so I need to look seensational." The pony of pop said in an almost singing tone. "I have just what you need. Sapphire Shores, prepare yourself the piece de resistance la haute couture. I used every last diamond I found on this one garment." Rarity said using a bunch of French words I didn't understand, and reveling the outfit she was working on. The outfit was white and covered with red and blue gems all around it. The gems on the outfit glowed a rose red and ocean blue as the sunlight hit the outfit. "gasp, And it is spectacular! I'll take it." Sapphire Shores said taking in the beauty of the outfit Rarity had made. "Really?" Rarity said her eyes lighting up. "Oh yes, and I'd like five more, each done in a different jewel." Sapphire said ordering five new outfits from Rarity. "I beg your pardon?" Rarity said to Sapphire as the thought of finding that many gems weighed on her mind. "Costume changes." Sapphire said to Rarity in a calm demeanor. Rarity looked into the empty gem chest and then fainted as the weight of having to find all the gems need for five more outfits was too much for her. "chuckle, I have that effect on ponies." Sapphire said to the fainted Rarity. Spike and Rarity began to look for gems that would go for Sapphire Shores' five outfits. Rarity's horn glowed light blue as she looked for gems using her horn as a gem detector. "Oh my gosh, Sapphire Shores. The pony of pop she is awesome, I mean she's gorgeous, and talented, and..." Spike said pulling a red wagon behind him, stopping when Rarity stared back at him. "But not even half the pony you are Rarity. I mean you are ten times for gorgeous and talented." Spike said to Rarity back peddling on his original statement. "Spike a lady is never jealous." Rarity said to Spike going back to searching for gems with her horn. "Of course not, but where you totally flipping out or what?" Spike said to Rarity. "Ladies do not flip out, Spike. However, I was quite in awe." Rarity said to Spike before she went back to her task of finding more jewels for Sapphire's outfits. "Ooh, I need to find more jewels than ever before to decorate her costumes." Rarity said pacing back and forth using her horn as a jewel detector. After a few moments Rarity's horn located a small group of gems and she directed Spike on wear to dig them up. "Ooooo! You look so delicious..." Spike said to the sparkling gems laying in front of him. "Spike! I promised I'd give you gems to snack on, but we need to collect more first or I'll never be able to make these outfits for Sapphire." Rarity said to Spike putting his mind back on the task at hand. "Hmm... I will miss you, my sweets." Spike said putting the gems in the small red wagon. "Come along, Spike. We have many jewels to find." Rarity said as the two of them searched for more gems. About an hour passed and the wagon was almost completely filled with gems of all different colors. "You've been very patient today, Spike. And for that you get the finest reward. This is from me to you." Rarity said giving Spike a small blue gem. "Is something wrong, Spike?" Rarity said to the purple dragon, her blue eyes sparkling just as bright as the gems they were collecting. "No, it's perfect." Spike said to Rarity accepting her gift. "Ooo, bring the cart Spike." Rarity said as her horn light up, detecting even more gems to add to their already large collection. "For me, from Rarity." Spike said to himself before following Rarity to look for more gems. "Yesss, gemsss. Gemsss!" A diamond dog, an ugly bipedal dog-like creature which only thought process is to find gems, by the name of Rover said from behind a brush overlooking the two searching for gems. "Where?" Another diamond dog by the name of Fido said to Rover. "Preciousss gemsss! He is the gem hunter. With him we can have all those gems... and more! Let's get the dragon." Rover said seeing Spike pulling the red wagon filled with precious gems. "Spike! Where are you?" Rarity said calling for Spike. "Wait! Who is that?" Rover said looking over to see the white unicorn calling for her little dragon assistant. "You know, it's terrible to keep a lady waiting." Rarity said to Spike unaware that the both of them were being watched. "Coming!" Spike said to Rarity catching up to Rarity and began to dig at the area she directed him towards. "I think we're really going to strike gold this time. So to speak." Rarity said as Spike dug into the ground looking for more gems for Sapphire Shores' outfits. "Jackpot!" Spike said as he pulled an arms full of gems from the ground. "Oh, it's not the dragon we want. It's the pony!" Rover said as the diamond dogs realized that it was Rarity that had the unique ability to find gems with her horn. "The pony..." The three diamond dogs said as they retreated back underground as they planned to acquire Rarity by any means necessary. Rarity and Spike were busy finding gems for Sapphire Shores' outfits, unaware that they both being watched by a pack of diamond dogs. "I think that's all we can do for today. This will get me well on my way with Sapphire Shores' outfits." Rarity said to her dragon assistant as he put the last gems in the red wagon. "Why don't we..." Rarity began to say only for her horn to light up. "What's this another jewel. Strange it's in the trees." Rarity said as horn lead her to the gem on the necklace of the leader of the Diamond Dogs, Rover. "Uh, good day gentle... fellow, Uh I am Rarity and this is my friend Spike. And you would be." Rarity said as the diamond dog showed himself and she retreated backwards. "A diamond dog." Rover said back to Rarity as he lead the unicorn and dragon further backwards. "Oh really, that explains your fine taste for jewelry. I mean, I know a diamond is a mare's best friend, but now I know their a dog's best friend too. So you're out here hunting for gems as well." Rarity said to the diamond dog, trying her best to get out of the tense situation. "Yes, we hunt." Rover said to Rarity, hinting to her that he wasn't alone." "A... we?" Rarity said noticing his choice of words. "We hunt for gems, and you are a better hunter. So we hunt for you." Rover said as the other two diamond dogs dug out of the ground behind Spike and Rarity. The larger dog swung a paw at Rarity barely missing her head. Spike used his tail as a jackhammer and jumped on the tail of the smaller bulldog like diamond dog. The dog jumped up into the air in pain as the other two continued trying to capture Rarity. "Run Rarity, run." Spike said to Rarity as the larger of the three diamond dogs pushed him into the ground. "Come on Spike, hurry." Rarity said the purple dragon and he caused two of the dogs to trip. "Gotcha." Rover said cornering the white unicorn. "Go Rarity, I got em." Spike said only for the larger dog to kick him into one of the trees. "Unhand me this instant, you ruffians! Put me down you brutes." Rarity said as the three diamond dogs retreated into their hole in the ground their price in hand. Spike was able to jumped out of the tree in time to see Rarity trying to claw her way back out. "Spike, aah dirt!" Rarity yelled as she got a patch of dirt on her hoof. She was then dragged back down into the hole by one of the diamond dogs. "NOOOOO!" Spike yelled at the top of his lungs as Rarity disappeared into the dark caves underneath his feet. A few minutes as the rest of the mane six, with Spike on the back of Twilight breathing into a brown paper bag, arrived at the gem quarry just outside of Ponyville. "Spike, can you breathe now?" Twilight asked Spike who was still breathing into the bag. "Yes, I think so." Spike said to the purple unicorn. "Good, now tell us what you know." Twilight said to the dragon on her back. "Yeah, cause all you said earlier was..." Rainbow chimed in as the scene switched to when Spike told the rest of the mane six of Rarity's capture. "Rarity! Woods! Jewels Dogs! Holes! Taken! Save Her!" Spike said in rapid succession only to get a looked of confusion from the five ponies, as the scene switch back to the gem quarry. "That's not that much to go on sport." Applejack said as the ponies raced to where Rarity was taken. "Sorry. Rarity and I were in the woods looking for jewels when these creepy guys showed up." Spike said explaining the situation. "Creepy guys." Twilight chimed in as Spike continued. "They called themselves the diamond dogs. They grabbed Rarity and disappeared down a hole in the ground." Spike said finishing his explanation of the situation. "Well this sounds mighty easy. Just take us that there hole and we'll save Rarity." Applejack said as the five ponies and dragon arrived at the quarry to see that it was completely littered with holes. "Holey moley, that's a lot of holeys!' Pinkie looking out to the quarry which was riddled with holes by the diamond dogs. 'Come on girls, let's get started." Twilight said to the rest of the ponies, and Spike. Twilight than walked over to one of the holes in the ground and called into it. "Hello." Just as Twilight called into the hole it was quickly filled up by one of the diamond dogs. The dirt from the dogs hitting Twilight in the face. This one hole getting filled was than filled by a bunch of other holes being filled by the dogs in rapid succession. "Quick, we got to get down there before they are all filled up." Twilight said to her friends as the many holes surrounding them began to get filled with dirt. "We can't muscle through." Applejack said as she tried her way through the dirt only to fail in the process. "We'll see about that." Rainbow Dash said as she rocketed into the air and then dive bombed toward an unfilled hole. She stopped her momentum as the hole she was flying toward filled up entirely. She stopping only inches from slamming into the ground. "Heaven's to beasting. Now, I'm used to picking myself up and dusting myself off, but Rarity won't even touch mud unless it's imported." Applejack said to her friends talking about Rarity. "Oh, Rarity." Twilight said as the ponies daydreamed about Rarity. "Oh woe is me! Whatever shall I do?" Daydream Rarity said inside a small cell underground as she stomped her hoof and a pile of dirt fall on them. "Ah, dirt get away dirt?" Rarity said hitting one of the walls of her cells, more dirt falling on her white coat. "Make it stop! Filthy disgusting dirt." Rarity said backing up into the other wall of her cell, more dirt falling on her coat beginning to cover her in brown dirt. "It stings, it burn. Will somepony save me, save me." Daydream Rarity said as the daydream of the mane six switched back to the quarry. "We got to save her." Applejack said to the whole group. "But they blocked out all the holes." Fluttershy said in her calm demeanor. "Don't mean that we can't dig them out, come on girls." Applejack said jumping on one of the filled and started digging it out, as the other ponies joined her. As Pinkie was digging out one of the holes, one of the diamond dogs pop out and grabbed her tail. This forced her to fall off of the pile she was digging. A similar thing happens to Fluttershy as one of the diamond dogs picks her up from her wings and drops her shortly after, the dog retreating back underground afterwards. "Get em." Rainbow says talking to Twilight as two of the dogs pop out of the same hole. Rainbow and Twilight than charged at the diamond dogs only for them to retreat back underground, causing the two ponies to collide into each other. "All those scary monsters popping up out of nowhere. Oh poor, Rarity must be terrified." Fluttershy said as the six ponies thought up another daydream about Rarity. "Give me the baubles." The smaller diamond dog by the name of Spot said in the daydream. "Ah!" Rarity yelped as the dog appeared in front of her. "Give me the beads." The larger blue diamond dog by the name of Fido said popping out seemly nowhere. "Ah!" Rarity yelped again as the new diamond dog appeared. "Where is the trinkets?" The leader of the diamond dogs by the name of Rover said to the white unicorn. "Ah!' Rarity yelled again as the leader appeared. "Where is the treasure!?" The three diamond dogs said all at the same time. This caused the daydream Rarity to faint as the scene switched back to the ponies. "Poor Rarity, what are we gonna do." Twilight said as the group returned from their shared daydream, if that's even possible. "I got it." Spike exclaimed as he saw one small hole that wasn't filled, convenient. "I'll save you my sweet." Spike continued taking out the blue gem that Rarity had given to him earlier. "Huh!" The five ponies said looking at each from Spike's words. Spike ran up to the open hole and pulled and attached the gem to a fishing pole and dropped it into the hole, hoping that one of the diamond dogs would take the bite. "Spike it is very noble of you..." Twilight began to say to Spike, only for him to shush her. "To sacrifice the gem Rarity gave you." Twilight continued now in a whisper. "Oh lady Rarity, my damsel in distress." Spike said as he drifted off into his own daydream. "I shall save you. Show yourselves, you dogs, you curs." Spike said in his daydream, now a more muscular dragon wearing knight-like armor. Then the same three diamond dogs appeared out of the dark tunnels. "A... there you are you mutts." Spike said to the three dogs. "Who are you calling mutts? Unleash the hounds!" Daydream Rover said blowing into a white dog whistle. The whistle didn't go unanswered as a bunch of large brown diamond dogs wearing white armor appeared behind their leader. The small group of warrior dogs charged daydream Spike and he used his large sword more like a staff knocking all of the charging dogs out of the way. He then used his tail to knock a few other dogs into another tunnel. He finished off the rest by using his orange dragon breathe on the dogs. His dragon forced the warrior dogs to retreat and Spike interrogated the three dogs. "Now, where is lady Rarity?" Spike asked the three dogs. The three scared dogs than pointed to the left. Spike than charged through a metal door to find Rarity who was dressed in a pink and purple princess dress, I'm guessing to be a reference of a pink princess that keeps getting kidnapped, and saved by a red plumber. "Oh Spike, I'd knew you'd save me." Daydream Rarity said to Spike, glad that she had save him from the diamond dogs. "Nothing could stop me, my lady." Spike said to Rarity. "Oh Spike, you are my hero." Rarity said her lips puckering up for a kiss from the dragon. Spike puckered his lips in order to return the kiss as the scene switches back to Ponyville. "Woa, there loverboy." Applejack as Spike was about to kiss the orange pony. Just as AJ finished her sentence the fishing pole jumped as someone grabbed the gem at the bottom. "Woa, Woa! I got a bit, I got a bite!" Spike exclaimed as something began to drag him closer to the hole. "Hang on their fella." Applejack said grabbing onto Spike's tail before he could fall into the hole. "Applejack." Twilight said grabbing onto the orange ponies tail, as the two were almost pulled into the hole. "Twilight!" Rainbow said as she grabbed onto the purple unicorn's tail. "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness." Fluttershy said as she grabbed onto the blue Pegasus' tail. "Oh wait for me." Pinkie said bouncing up and down. She grabbed onto the tail of the yellow Pegasus. The six of them, Spike and the rest of the Mane five landed at the bottom of the caves, which had been dug entirely by diamond dogs looking for gems. "Ha, Ha! It worked. We're in now we can finally save Rarity." Spike said to back on his feet. "Um... which way do you go?" Twilight said as she looked around the cave they land in which had many tunnels dug into it, all of them leading in different directions. "No!" Spike yelled, doing the same thing he did earlier when Rarity was ponynapped. "All these tunnels. How are we ever going to find Rarity?" Twilight said as the five ponies, and Spike, searched the vast a ray of tunnels in the caves underneath Ponyville. "I guess we'll just have to go down them, one by one." Applejack said. That could take forever! There's gotta be way to narrow it down. "I know! I bet they've taken Rarity down the tunnel with the most gems." Spike exclaimed to the group. "But Spike, Rarity is the only one who knows how to find gems." Twilight said to Spike, pointing out that Rarity was the only pony that could locate gems. "No, Twilight. You can! You can copy Rarity's gem-finding spell." Spike said to the purple unicorn, whose special talent was literally magic (not to mention it is also her Element of Harmony). "Oh, my gosh! You're right! Rarity showed me how she did it a while back. If I can just remember..." Twilight said before her horn glowed a magenta color as she copied Rarity's gem finding spell. Twilight finished her spell, which made all the gems in the walls appear like radar. "That's it. You did it, Twilight! Come on! We're coming, Rarity. We'll save you. Just hold on." Spike said, as the group galloped down the tunnel that contained the most gems. "Oh please, Diamond Dogs. Please let me go." Rarity said to her captors. "No!" Spot, the smaller bulldog like diamond dog, said to the white unicorn. "You're our precious little pony." Fido, the larger blue diamond said to Rarity, chiming in. "Forever! Muhahahaha!" Rover, the leader of the diamonds dogs finished. "But whatever do you want from me?" Rarity said to her the three dogs, intentionally acting weaker than she really is. "Gemsss!" Rover said to the white unicorn. "Yes! The gems. The jewels." Spot chimed in. "Find them! Find them all!" Fido said finishing the other two sentences. "Oh! Is that all?" Rarity said to the three dogs, her horn lighting up as she searched for gems. "There. A lovely pocket of jewels are right there. Now, if you'd be so kind as to show me the exit?" Rarity said finding a small group of gems in the ground. "Good! (laugh) Now, dig them up, pony." Rover said to Rarity, pointing down at the area. "What? But you said you wanted me to find the gems." Rarity said to the leader of the dogs. "Yes! Find and then dig." Spot said pointing down at the dirt. "Dig?" The white unicorn said disgusted at the thought of digging up the gems. "Yes. Dig." Fido chimed "Ohh..." Rarity grunted as she used the tip of her hoof to dig up the gems. "What are you doing? We said dig!" Fido said frustrate at the digging, or leak thereof, by Rarity. "Forgive me, but prior to you so rudely dragging me into your dirt pit, I had a pony-pedi and I am not about to chip a hoof because you dislike my style of digging." Rarity grunt as she continued her pity excuse for digging. "Oh, for goodness. Fine! Just stop. Stop!" Rover said to Rarity making stop her so called digging. "Dig, dogs! Dig! And fast." Rover said calling for warrior dogs to dig in the place of Rarity. The dogs dug until they found a small group of multi-colored gems. "She won't dig, she pulls." Fido said as he tried to attach a rusty old wagon to the white unicorn. "I beg your pardon, but what, pray tell, are you doing?" Rarity said as the large diamond dog. "Others will dig. You will haul the wagon." Fido said to the unicorn. "Prrrecious pony-pedi will be preserved." Spot said using Rarity's previous words against her. "Well, somebody certainly needs proper nail care. When was the last time you two had a manicure? You're scratching up my coat with those jagged things!" Rarity said to Fido as his dirty claws pieced the white unicorn coat. "Please be quiet!" A frustrated Rover barked (pun intended) at Rarity. "Good heavens, what is that smell?" Rarity said beginning to complain about Rover's breath. "Smeeeeeell?" Rover said, opening his mouth to show green fuses coming from it. "Ah, mystery solved. It's your breath." Rarity said smelling the dog's breathe. This caused the dog to smell his own breath afterwards, also not very fond of it. "Enough! Search, pony!" A frustrated Rover yelled, ordering Rarity to do the job they had ponynapped her for. "Well, since you insist..." Rarity said pulling the wagon and using a stick to mark where gems were located on the ground. "But I must say the working conditions in here are simply dreadful. Musty and damp, it's going to wreak havoc on my mane. And this air is stifling, suffocating. And when I try to take a deep breath, the stench of all you dogs makes me nauseated." Rarity said complaining, as she marked an area in a column with gems. The dogs dug up the gems only for the column to fall on them. "You look and smell like you haven't bathed in weeks. Have you never heard of soap? You could all do with a good round of soap and water." Rarity said passing two of the guard dogs, making them spell there armpits, and faint shortly afterwards from their body order. "Oh water, oh water, I'm terribly thirsty. Could I please have some water?" Rarity said continuing on her rant of complaining about the working conditions of the mines. "Good gracious, I can't take this anymore. Be quiet, pony!" Spot yelled at the white unicorn, only for her to continue. "And that's another thing. I would appreciate if you stopped calling me 'pony'. I am a lady and I wish to be addressed as such. So you may call me 'Miss' or 'Rarity' or 'Miss Rarity'." "Enough! You're whining! It-it-it hurts!" "Whining? I am not whining. I am complaining." Rarity said as she started an overexgerated "Do you want to hear whining? Thiiis iiis whiiining! Oooh, this harness is too tiiight! It's going to chafe. Can't you loosen it? Oooh, it hurts and it's sooo ruuusty! Why didn't you clean it first? It's gonna leave a staaain! And the wagon's getting heeeavy, why do I have to pull it?!" "Would you excuse me for a second, (gets up from laptop currently writing on) uncontrollable laughter for about five minutes, ok I'm back. Now where was I, oh yes?" Anyway, Rarity said, intentionally being as annoying as possible. "Stop whining!" Rover barked (pun intended) at Rarity wanting her to shut up. "But I thought you wanted whiiining!" Rarity whined even laugher then before. "Geh! We'll do anything, pony! Oh, uh, uh, we'll do anything, 'Miss Rarity'." Rover said, saying in a way to shut Rarity shut up. "Anything?" Rarity said dreamily, going to take full advantage of the diamond dog's words. "sigh... This water is hardly sparkling. But I suppose it will have to do." Rarity said in a large throne like carven that was completely decorated, the diamond dogs now treating her like a queen. "Wait! Why are we doing this?" A panting Rover said as the three dogs were pulling their own carts full of gems. "To stop the awful noises from the pony's mouth, remember?" Spot said to his leader, reminding him of the pain to their ears that would come if they didn't. "Yes, yes, I know. This is ridiculous! Letting a pony order us around. What are we? Mice or dogs?" Rover said to the others. " Mi... dogs?" Spot and Fido said dumbly at the same time. "Dogs do not pull. Ponies pull. Let her make the awful noises." Rover said to the others, fad up with the unicorn. "What are you doing? Hey, you spilled my drink." Rarity said, as one of dogs knocked over her glass of water. "Oh! Not sooo tiiight!" Rarity whined, as the dogs attached a rusty cart to her. "Ha! Make the noises all you want. But move while you make them. Hyah, mule!" Rover said to Rarity, slapping her in the back. "Did you just call me a... mule?" Rarity said, tears forming in her blue eyes. "Ehh..." Rover muttered confused. "Mules are ugly. Are you saying that I too am ugly?" Rarity said now crying. "What are these noises?" Spot said, looking at the unicorn that which was crying on the ground. "He called me ugly!" Rarity managed to say through tears. "No! Mule! I said mule!" Rover said to the white unicorn, trying to explaining himself. "An old ugly mule! And it's true! Just look at me. I used to be beautiful, but, but nooow..." Rarity said continuing to cry her eyes out. "No, no! You're still beautiful, po... uh, Miss Rarity." Spot said trying to cheer Rarity up. "You're just saying that!" Rarity said her tears now streaming like a river. "No, you're still pretty and... and..." Fido said to the crying pony. "Oh, uh, uh, nice. Yeah." Rover said, adding his words to the conservation. "I don't believe you! You never liked me!" Rarity cried digging her face into her hoofs. "Oh, I've had just about enough of this!" Rover said, covering his ears with his paws. As the scene switched back to the rest of the mane six, and Spike. "We're getting close. I can feel it." Twilight said as the group heard Rarity's cries out in the distance. "It's coming from down here. Come on!" Spike said on Twilight's back. "She must be in there. Let's go!" Applejack said as the ponies got closer to Rarity. "More workhorses." A group of warrior diamond dogs said jumping on their backs. "Hoh, doggies. If you can take this bull by the horns, you better be ready for a ride. Come on, ponies! Kick 'em up, kick 'em out. Buck 'em up, buck 'em down." Applejack said, as the rest of the ponies bucked the dogs off their back. The dogs then howled as they retreated back into the caves. "Yeehaw! Get along, little doggies!" The southern pony said as the dogs ran away. "I'm coming for you, milady. Hi-ho, Twilight! Away!" Spike said breaking a stalagmite out of the ceiling and using it like a small sword, not mention jumping onto Twilight back and using her like his noble steed. "And just what do you think you're doing?" Twilight said to her little dragon assistant. "Please, Twilight. Just give me this." Spike said to the purple unicorn, wanting to live up his dream as the knight in shining armor. "Eh... fine." Twilight said to the purple dragon, submitting to his fantasy. She then rose up on her hind legs and charged forward. She busted through a rusted metal door and Spike announced. "Lady Rarity, I'm here to save you!" What happened next surprised both the dragon and pony. "Save us! Please, save us! Make it stop! Please!" The three diamond dogs said simultaneously to the purple alicorn, I mean unicorn. "Shit hope nopony noticed that." "Excuse me." A confused Twilight said to the diamond dogs. "She's so picking. And critical. She won't stop talking. And crying." All the dogs said at the same time. "We, give her back." Rover said, as Rarity walked up pulling a cart full of gems. "Rarity! You're safe!" Spike exclaimed, running up to the white unicorn. "Why, yes. Hello, girls. You arrived just in time to assist me." Rarity said to her friends. "Assist you with what?" Applejack asked Rarity. "With those." Rarity said, using her hoof to point at another five carts filled to the brim with gems of all different colors. "You're letting her leave with all these... jewels?" Spike said his mouth watering as he look at all the gems. "Yes. Take them. And her with them." Rover said, both gladly and regretfully to the dragon. "Please!" Spot said, the six ponies and dragon left soon afterward pulling a least one ton of gems back to Ponyville. About a half an hour later the ponies returned to the surface, each pony have a cart full of gems in tow. "I can't believe that you found all these gems." Pinkie said to Rarity. "Heh. I can't believe you tricked all those dogs." Rainbow said surprised that a pony that wouldn't get her hoof dirty could outsmart three diamond dogs. "Just because I'm a lady doesn't mean I cannot handle myself in a sticky situation. I had them wrapped around my hoof the entire time." Rarity said explaining her methods to her friends. "I can't wait to write to Princess Celestia to tell her what you taught me today." Twilight said to Rarity. "Me? What did I teach you?" Rarity said to Twilight surprised. "Just because somepony is ladylike doesn't make her weak. In fact, by using her wits a seemingly defenseless pony can be the one who outsmarts and outshines them all." Twilight said to her friend, saying her words as if she was doing a speech. "Hmm..." Outshines" is right. Now you have enough gems to cover Sapphire Shores' costumes." Spike said busy eating some of the gems in one of Rarity's cart. "Not if you eat them all, Spike." Rarity said to the purple dragon. All the ponies shared a laugh, as the scene switched to the earthquake tortured city of Canterlot. As a yellow unicorn had a meeting with the princess to discuss the current phenomenon. "The princesses must know about my findings." Moon Dancer said to herself as she arrived at the massive castle that towered over the city of Canterlot as she was about to have meeting with the two princesses about the earthquakes that had plagued the city for the last few months. Moon Dancer continued her walk to the castle passing by some construction workers who were busy repairing some of the damaged building from all the earthquakes. "Princess, the pony by the name of Moon Dancer has arrived to discuss a matter of great importance." One of the castle guards said to Celestia, her little sister Luna resting after a hard day at work the night before. "Excellent, send her in please." Celestia said from her large throne to the guard, putting down one of the many scrolls by her side, and the two heavy doors to the throne room magically opened reveling the yellow unicorn standing in the middle of the doorway. "Hello princess my name is Moon Dancer." Moon Dancer said as politely as she could to the white Alicorn, introducing herself to her. "Why yes Moon Dancer, my advisors says that you have something important to speak to me about" Celestia said to the unicorn in a calm demeanor as her flowing rainbow colored mane glowed like the sun she brought. "I have come to inform you about some research that I have been doing for the last few months." Moon Dancer said to the princess, who raised both of her eyebrows at Moon Dancer's words. "What kind of research?" Celestia asked Moon Dancer with a little concern her voice. "As I'm sure you and your sister know the city has been plagued by small earthquakes for the last few months." Moon Dancer said to Celestia. "Yes, what about them, our scientists are currently working on an explanation, and a probable solution for the seismic phenomena as I speak." Celestia said to Moon Dancer wondering what the yellow unicorn, who looked a lot like Twilight, end game was. "Well I have found a connection between the earthquakes that your scientists may have not noticed." Moon Dancer said taking out one of the many scrolls out of her small purple saddlebag. Celestia used her gold magic to take the scroll from Moon Dancer and the princess read the scroll. Her pink eyes widening as she read it.